Example sentences of "[adj] people [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leading environmentalist Medha Paktar and 400 others were arrested to prevent them commiting samarpan ( self-sacrifice ) in protest against the dam project , which would force 250,000 tribal people to move from the Narmada valley . |
| 2 | The term ‘ corporatism ’ means different things to different people engaged in the analysis of socio-political structures in liberal industrial societies . |
| 3 | All different people went in the meeting — the health visitor , the doctor , teachers — but I could n't go in . |
| 4 | The chance of an exposure transmitting infection varies both between the different ways it can be transmitted and , for reasons yet undetermined , between different people engaging in the same activity . |
| 5 | Different people vary in the speed at which they take in what is said . |
| 6 | If you have editing facilities , you could edit together a succession of short " clips " of different people talking about the same subject . |
| 7 | THE COMMISSION of Investigation wishes to pay homage to you , in particular for your support to the Chadian people oppressed during the eight years of dictatorship of Hissein Habre . |
| 8 | Those of us who want the Scottish people to stay in the UK can see nothing logically wrong or abhorrent in the UK developing its constitutional relationship with its community partners . |
| 9 | The British people have in the past found them rather more powerful than the corporations which are popularly supposed to finance the Conservative party . |
| 10 | I think for a day 's er work it 's worth assessing the three top people identified with the six outside people that I 've identified who are you know in the next division down to see how they compare . |
| 11 | Mind you , we did get some funny people coming into the shop . |
| 12 | Only in the late nineteenth century did these contracts generally disappear and instead the land was sold or let and the old people lived off the cash proceeds . |
| 13 | We have little idea of how well other old people cope without the help of the formal sector , though it is not unreasonable to suppose that many struggle in a considerable degree of discomfort and risk . |
| 14 | For obvious reasons , financial security at a level which permits old people to join in the activities which are part of everyday society is a foundation on which much else rests . |
| 15 | To combat ageism , therefore , we need knowledge and understanding of the effective adjustments which so many very old people make in the face of radically changed situations , physical , social and emotional . |
| 16 | At the other extreme , many old people die during the heat waves that occur in very hot countries such as Greece . |
| 17 | Allen , Hogg , and Peace undertook empirical research in three authorities where the care experiences of 100 old people living in the community but ‘ at risk ’ of residential care were compared with a similar number of old people living in residential care ( 52 in private homes and 51 in Local Authority homes ) . |
| 18 | The primary emphasis of the work is on the support networks of old people living in the community ; that is , all those people who provide company , advice , help and other kinds of support which make continued independent living possible . |
| 19 | A consequence of these processes , as Walker puts it , has been ‘ periodic expressions of alarm at the ‘ burden ’ of dependency' which old people create for the rest of us . |
| 20 | ‘ Queen Street has always been one of the main access points to the beach and it is too far to expect old people to walk around the end of the development , ’ she added . |
| 21 | Nor are there many rodassiers , ample benches or daybeds which many French people regard as the most typical item of Provençal furniture . |
| 22 | Gradually , the French people turned against the sale guerre . |
| 23 | Many ageing people hide behind the facade of ‘ being all right ’ , and this is often one which is most difficult for the counsellor to penetrate ( Scrutton , 1986 ) . |
| 24 | We were also glad to see 82-year-old Wally ‘ Left Hand Down ’ Perkins who has selflessly devoted the past 33 years to the unpaid unofficial work of guiding people reversing into the bays in a car park in Ipswich . |
| 25 | AS temperatures soared into the 70 's all across the north west , sensible people headed to the nearest beach . |
| 26 | What gave this and subsequent works weight was their sheer authenticity : real people spoke through the text , via Terkel 's tape recorder . |
| 27 | Uncle Albert told her that when he did the weeding , he always imagined himself as some great monster uprooting trees and scaring the tiny people hiding under the stones . |
| 28 | And last night , we sang the top ten , in the Songs of Praise service , and it was a surprising how many extra people came to the church , as a result of that . |
| 29 | Police and motoring organisations warned that drivers heading for the capital are certain to face lengthy delays as thousands of extra people take to the roads . |
| 30 | Gentlemen and their men servants — 267 , these are the extra people staying in the houses , not the people who lived in St Aldate 's normally , women — 66 , children under 16 years of age — 13 , soldiers of the life-guards — 62 , total in this parish — 408 . |